Uromyces guerkeanus Hennings, 1893
Fungi, Basidiomycota. Pucciniomycetes, Pucciniales, Pucciniaceae
on Lotus
gall
No host plant alternation, uredinia and telia. Uredinia cinnamon to chocolate brown, generally epiphyllous, often in a circle around a central sorus; spores 21-22 x 22-23 µm with 3-6 germination pores. Telia blackish brown; spores 2-celled, 18-21 x 20-23 µm, wall to a varable degree with warts, arranged in rows.
hostplants
Fabaceae, narrowly monophagous
Lotus arabicus, creticus, ornithopodoides.
references
Brandenburger (1985a: 289), Gäumann (1959a), Losa Quintana (1972b).
07/12/2016